A Call For Humor!

[Holmz]

It's from the movie.

I know it absolutely @DonR
But it was also based upon fact in the era.
Kubrick only used it, he had not invented it.

It is almost humorous in a dark way…

Communist conspiracy theory (1940s–1960s)​

Water fluoridation has frequently been the subject of conspiracy theories. During the "Second Red Scare" in the United States during the late 1940s and 1950s, and to a lesser extent in the 1960s, activists on the far right of American politics routinely asserted that fluoridation was part of a far-reaching plot to impose a socialist or communist regime. These opponents believed it was "another aspect of President Truman's drive to socialize medicine."[91] They also opposed other public health programs, notably mass vaccination and mental healthservices.[92] Their views were influenced by opposition to a number of major social and political changes that had happened in recent years: the growth of internationalism, particularly the UN and its programs; the introduction of social welfare provisions, particularly the various programs established by the New Deal; and government efforts to reduce perceived inequalities in the social structure of the United States.[93]

Others asserted the existence of "a Communist plot to deplete the brainpower and sap the strength of a generation of American children".[91] Dr. Charles Betts, a prominent anti-fluoridationist, charged that fluoridation was "better than using the atom bomb because the atom bomb has to be made, has to be transported to the place it is to be set off while poisonous fluorine has been placed right beside the water supplies by the Americans themselves ready to be dumped into the water mains whenever a Communist desires!" Similarly, a right-wing newsletter, the American Capsule News, claimed that "the Soviet General Staff is very happy about it. Anytime they get ready to strike, and their 5th columntakes over, there are tons and tons of this poison "standing by" municipal and military water systems ready to be poured in within 15 minutes."[11]

This controversy had a direct impact on local program during the 1950s and 1960s, where referendums on introducing fluoridation were defeated in over a thousand Florida communities. It was not until as late as the 1990s that fluoridated water was consumed by the majority of the population of the United States.[92]

The communist conspiracy argument declined in influence by the mid-1960s, becoming associated in the public mind with irrational fear and paranoia. It was portrayed in Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr. Strangelove, in which the character General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear war in the hope of thwarting a communist plot to "sap and impurify" the "precious bodily fluids" of the American people with fluoridated water. Another satire appeared in the 1967 movie In Like Flint, in which a character's fear of fluoridation is used to indicate that he is insane.

Some …

Water fluoridation controversy - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[DonR]

I know it absolutely @DonR
But it was also based upon fact in the era.
Kubrick only used it, he had not invented it.

It is almost humorous in a dark way…

Water fluoridation controversy - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Plus ça change...

 

[Tassin]

 

[Waxx]

 

[Pegwill]

 

[Waxx]

 

[Waxx]

 

[Pegwill]

 

[Suffolkhifinut]

 

[Offler]

True story

Hiker lost on US mountain ignored calls from rescuers because he didn’t recognise the number

Repeated attempts to contact the man missing on Mount Elbert for more than 24 hours went unanswered

www.theguardian.com

 

[Andretti60]

That reminds me the British comedian John Peter Sloan who was living in Italy

 

[jkasch]

 

[jkasch]

 

[napfkuchen]

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So he lives in a tree now?

 

[Ken Tajalli]

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Good old analogue days!
those were the days. . .

 

[jkasch]

 

[Suffolkhifinut]

 

[mhardy6647]

Not humor per se (i.e., not meant to be funny) but I was amused by the use of the recently popular (KEF... Andrew Jones... etc.) trope of the exploded speaker driver in the promotional images for this product oh-so-clearly aimed at the audiophile market.

Just in time for the holidays, too!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07H8VG9BB

 

[Vini darko]

Not humor per se (i.e., not meant to be funny) but I was amused by the use of the recently popular (KEF... Andrew Jones... etc.) trope of the exploded speaker driver in the promotional images for this product oh-so-clearly aimed at the audiophile market.

Just in time for the holidays, too!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07H8VG9BB

Awww bless it's puny voice coil

 

[Ken Tajalli]

Awww bless it's puny voice coil

But with a huge dust-cap to make up for it.
What's your problem?